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Infosec bits for week 19/19

- Roderick Mooi

  1. Verizon Breach Report: Attacks on top executives and cloud-based email services increased in 2018 [SC Media]
  2. Cybersecurity Stars: In a field dominated by men, female researchers take the lead at CMU [Carnegie Mellon University]
  3. In a first, Israel responds to Hamas hackers with an air strike [Zero Day]
  4. Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police [New York Times]
  5. Apple and Google battle for the future of privacy [Zero Day]
    - see also: What do tech giants know about you? A new tool shows you just how much
  6. Microsoft recommends using a separate device for administrative tasks [Zero Day]
    - see also: 3 investments Microsoft is making to improve identity management
  7. Amazon can’t yet completely delete Alexa voice transcriptions [Zero Day]
  8. Oh dear. Secret Huawei enterprise router snoop ‘backdoor’ was Telnet service, sighs Vodafone [The Register]
  9. Cryptojacking in the post-Coinhive era [Malwarebytes Labs]
  10. Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak [Ars Technica]
    - see also: Buckeye: Espionage Outfit Used Equation Group Tools Prior to Shadow Brokers Leak
  11. Johnny-You-Are-Fired